IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Savage
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2016ND059008
  • User Pedon ID: S2016ND059008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • User Project ID: NOGP_009_NEON
  • Project Name: Northern Great Plains Research Laboratory
  • Print Date: 12/10/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 46.8016220
  • Std. Longitude: -100.9144730
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 138N
  • Range: 81W
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: NW4 of Section
  • Location Description: 17.38;82;40x40 SW marker
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND059—Morton
  • MLRA: 54—Rolling Soft Shale Plain
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-DIC—Dickinson, North Dakota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ND059—Morton County, North Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jeanne Heilig;Perry Sullivan;Kyle Thomson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Vertic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Savage
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/9/2016
  • Classifier - Jeane Heilig, Perry Sullivan, Kyle Thomson
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Range Veg. Canopy Type Dominant - perennial grass
  • Range Veg. Canopy Type Secondary - perennial forbs or herbaceous
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey alluvium derived from shale and siltstone
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • Plot #: 9
  • RaCA Information:
  • RaCA Site ID - NOGP_009
  • DSP Plot ID - SW
  • Plot Baseline Azimuth - 82
  • Plot Baseline Length - 17
  • Plot Width - 40
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Center of pit
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Kyle Thomson

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R054XY020ND Clayey Jun 3 2016 Heilig, Jeanne
  • Other Vegetative Class: G054XY210ND - Clayey Subsoil—Forage Suitability Groups

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/9/2016 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Jeanne Heilig;Kyle Thomson;Perry Sullivan
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - overcast
  • Current Air Temp - 20
  • Kind of Land: rangeland
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    0—23

    23—88

    53—200

    —23—

    —65—

    —147—
    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    16

    —

    —

    546

    —

    240

    394

    —

    128

    6

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    A—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silty clay loam; 5 percent sand; 57 percent silt; 38 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; moderately hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; common (8.0) very fine roots throughout; many (6.0) very fine tubular pores; fragments; 5 Percent of Sand; 38 percent of Clay; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt—23 to 53 centimeters (9.1 to 20.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay; 5 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 48 percent clay; strong medium prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; common (5.0) very fine roots throughout; common (4.0) very fine tubular pores; 80 percent prominent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; 48 Percent of Clay; 5 percent of Sand; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Btk—53 to 88 centimeters (20.9 to 34.6 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay; 4 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 55 percent clay; strong medium prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; common (2.0) very fine roots between peds; common (2.0) very fine tubular pores; 80 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 25 percent fine irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses throughout; fragments; 55 Percent of Clay; 4 percent of Sand; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C—88 to 200 centimeters (34.6 to 78.7 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; silty clay; 4 percent sand; 46 percent silt; 50 percent clay; massive; hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout; few (1.0) very fine tubular pores; 5 percent fine irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses throughout and 2 percent medium irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat angular strongly coherent cemented 5-12-20 millimeter ironstone nodules fragments observed by visual inspection method and 8 percent by volume nonflat angular strongly coherent cemented 2-3-5 millimeter ironstone nodules fragments observed by visual inspection method; 50 Percent of Clay; 4 Percent of Sand; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH meter.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket